“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.”
“Let integrity fashion your character in all walks of life.As it will shape the person you will become”
“Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.”
“The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there’s a flood; and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gone under.”
“A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.”